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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 21
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This is the story of team leader Marcus Lutrell, the sole survivor of Operation Redwing, and the desperate battle in the mountains that led, ultimately, to the largest loss of life in Navy SEAL history. But it is also, more than anything, the story of his teammates, who fought ferociously beside him until he was the last one left-blasted unconscious by a rocket grenade, blown over a cliff, but still armed and still breathing. Over the next four days,...
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Series
Heroes of Olympus volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 19
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Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
Author
Series
Heroes of Olympus volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Twelve lost boys, their coach, and the heroes who rescued them. When the 12 young members of the Wild Boars soccer club walked into a Thai cave with their coach, they expected to be out by nightfall. A birthday cake waited in the fridge for one boy, another boy had a tutoring class. They had rope and torches but no food. Then a sudden monsoonal downpour flooded their route out. They were trapped - imprisoned in a cave said to be haunted by a mythical...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 18
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In November 1942 a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap. The B-17 sent on the search-and-rescue mission got caught in a storm and also crashed, miraculously all nine men aboard survived. A second rescue operation was launched, but the plane, the Grumman Duck, flew into a storm and vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by famed explorer Bernt Balchen. Then in 2012 the U.S....
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
Author
Series
Heroes of Olympus (graphic novels) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
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Description
Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
Author
Series
Heroes of Olympus (graphic novels) volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of "The Lost Hero" in which Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
12) El Heroe Perdido
Author
Series
Heroes of Olympus volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
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Pub. Date
2015.
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Christopher McDougall now travels to the Mediterranean where he discovers that the secrets of ancient Greek heroes are still alive and well on the island of Crete and in the muscles and minds of fitness enthusiasts everywhere. While researching Born to Run, Chris McDougall encountered the story of Pheidippides, the legendary ancient Greek 'all-day runner.' Later, when McDougall met a dedicated amateur historian, he saw a connection to one of the...
Author
Series
Heroes of Olympus volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Rick Riordan presents the first book in the Heroes of Olympus series, a secondary saga to Percy Jackson & the Olympians. Now that Percy Jackson and his friends have defeated the Titan lords, it's time to focus on rebuilding Camp Half-Blood and teaching the next generation of demigods, one of whom is Jason. But when Jason suffers from amnesia during a class trip to the Grand Canyon and discovers he can suddenly fly, he and his friends receive a visit...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Author of the phenomenal national best seller, Born to Run, Christopher McDougall now travels to the Mediterranean where he discovers that the secrets of ancient Greek heroes are still alive and well on the island of Crete and in the muscles and minds of fitness enthusiasts everywhere. While researching Born to Run, Chris McDougall encountered the story of Pheidippides, the legendary ancient Greek 'all-day runner.' Later, when McDougall met a dedicated...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Little has been known of one of the most important figures in early American history, Dr. Joseph Warren, an architect of the colonial rebellion, and a man who might have led the country as Washington or Jefferson did had he not been martyred at Bunker Hill in 1775. Warren was involved in almost every major insurrectionary act in the Boston area for a decade, from the Stamp Act protests to the Boston Massacre to the Boston Tea Party, and his incendiary...